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Tag: daddy issues

It’s Friday again! Time to look at the many issues messing with the heads of popular fantasy characters. If you remember from last week, we’re looking at the daddy issues of female characters in urban fantasy. So let’s put the Slayer on the couch, shall we? Buffy’s parents divorced when she was about fifteen. Her … More Freudian Fridays: Buffy Summers

Did you know that if you search Wikipedia for “daddy issues,” it’ll auto-redirect you to Electra complex? Neither did I. Now we both know. That very Wikipedia article says, The psychodynamic character of the daughter–mother relationship in the Electra complex derives from penis envy, caused by mother, who also caused the girl’s castration; however, upon re-aligning her … More Freudian Fridays: Daddy Issues in Urban Fantasy